>>Actually I dont think I have ever said that at all. We ALL have different >>approaches to problems. But... if you do decide to move to .NET you may >>find yourself trying to stuff a round peg into a square hole.

>>Why do you say that?

Basically object based types of data manipulation (.NET and Java) will probably NEVER have the transparent type of data manipulation that fox has had for going on 20+ years. You will always manipulate objects of some sort which will then be transported via some mechanism for processing at the database server.

IMO Linq and all related technologies will never make VFP developers happy. Why??? VFP is just very different than ALL other technologies and these will probably never reach that level of transparency. Does this mean that .NET or Java are not suitable for building database apps. Well you know the answer to that one. Each technlogy has its own Mojo. And the VFP mojo will never be recreated.